Episodes

  • From the line to the feed
    Dec 26 2025

    On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Voices from the PowerLine Podcast on how line workers are using TikTok and social media to tell their own stories and reach new audiences. In labor history, the Knights of Labor were founded in 1869. Quote of the day: Knights of Labor Constitution.

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  • “Every day we’re working ourselves out of a job”
    Dec 25 2025

    On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Building trades workers talk with the Heartland Labor Forum about the stress of job uncertainty and what it means to always be chasing the next project. In labor history, a 1910 dynamite bombing struck the Llewellyn Ironworks in Los Angeles during a bitter strike. Quote of the day: Kathy Newman.

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  • Holiday Displays and Labor Memory
    Dec 24 2025

    On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Madison Labor Radio looks at decades of union-built holiday displays in Madison, Wisconsin. In labor history, children were killed in the Italian Hall disaster during a miners’ strike. Quote of the day: Woody Guthrie.

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  • Corporate Power Bends the Knee to Trumpism
    Dec 23 2025

    On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Dig explores how major corporations and elite institutions quickly fell in line with Trumpism. In labor history, Wal-Mart agreed to a massive settlement over unpaid wages. Quote of the day: Shirley Chisholm. @wpfwdc @AFLCIO #1u #UnionStrong #LaborRadioPod

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  • “TiVo for Radio”
    Dec 22 2025

    On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Labor Radio show explores how the Labor Radio Podcast Network amplifies worker voices. In labor history, the 1919 deportations that launched the Red Scare. Quote of the day: Leonardo da Vinci.

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  • We Built the Movement
    Dec 19 2025

    On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: voices from Reinventing Solidarity remind us how Black organizers and institutions helped build the UAW—and why that history still gets erased. In labor history, a 1983 Greyhound strike ended after 47 days with deep concessions and the death of striker Ray Phillips. Quote of the day: Frederick Douglass.

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  • It Ain’t About Scrooge, It’s About Us
    Dec 18 2025

    On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: A powerful excerpt from A Red Carol by the San Francisco Mime Troupe reframes Dickens as a collective call to resist greed and reclaim solidarity. In labor history, General Motors announced the closure of 21 North American plants in 1991. Quote of the day: San Francisco Mime Troupe.

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  • “No Place for You in This Firm”
    Dec 17 2025

    On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: A candid conversation from Union Strong about confronting workplace discrimination and turning exclusion into a lifelong fight for workers’ rights. In labor history, Deborah Sampson—who disguised herself as a man to fight in the Revolutionary War—was born in 1760. Quote of the day: Abraham Lincoln.

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